Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 30, 2003 05:43 PM
"IT is not shrink wrapped"
And I didn't say it is, did I. If you take a look at some financial report from various technology companies you will see that Microsoft is doing excellent, they are not the ones that has problems.
As a matter of fact, consultant companies have been hit the worst.
What I'm talking about is still the WHOLE picture, not just Microsoft vs. Redhat or something like that.
The value in the technology industry has been shrinking like crazy.
I read an article somewhere that speculated in if the current value-decrease started with the Netscape vs. Internet explorer fight. At a first look, that seems ridiculous but I think it has lots of truth in it.
It was after the browsers where given away (with lots of publishing about that they where given away for free) that other companies followed and starting to give away stuff since there was a crazy idea at that point that market-share was more important than actually making money.
The fact that both products and services (think web-content/services) were given away made people think that there is little value in these products and services.
I saw a poll not so long ago that people don't want to pay for 3G products and services (meaning that they want it but don't want to pay for it), the idea that you don't need to pay for stuff has been cemented into peoples minds.
It will be a long uphill battle to get out of the depression this industry is in.
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Re:IT is not shrink wrapped
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 30, 2003 05:43 PMAnd I didn't say it is, did I. If you take a look at some financial report from various technology companies you will see that Microsoft is doing excellent, they are not the ones that has problems.
As a matter of fact, consultant companies have been hit the worst.
What I'm talking about is still the WHOLE picture, not just Microsoft vs. Redhat or something like that.
The value in the technology industry has been shrinking like crazy.
I read an article somewhere that speculated in if the current value-decrease started with the Netscape vs. Internet explorer fight. At a first look, that seems ridiculous but I think it has lots of truth in it.
It was after the browsers where given away (with lots of publishing about that they where given away for free) that other companies followed and starting to give away stuff since there was a crazy idea at that point that market-share was more important than actually making money.
The fact that both products and services (think web-content/services) were given away made people think that there is little value in these products and services.
I saw a poll not so long ago that people don't want to pay for 3G products and services (meaning that they want it but don't want to pay for it), the idea that you don't need to pay for stuff has been cemented into peoples minds.
It will be a long uphill battle to get out of the depression this industry is in.
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